What's New at the Anxiety and Panic Disorder Treatment Center
Appearance Worries Group
In this group, we will work with clients' life-interfering behaviors, such as avoidance of places and activities, as well as decreasing self-defeating behaviors such as excessive mirror-checking and reassurance-seeking. We work on increasing the awareness of the deeper issues and modifying negative core beliefs. A number of behavioral experiments are used to test out assumptions and broadening the person's perspective. To combat the grief of a lost dream and depression, we emphasize finding and committing to deeper values that can bring joy and contentment.
Sequence: Sixteen 2-hour-long sessions (4 Modules of 4 sessions each). Access to the program is the 1st session of any Module.
Social Anxiety Group
Sequence: Sixteen 2-hour-long sessions (4 Modules of 4 sessions each). Access to the program is the 1st session of any Module.
Module I: Social Skills Training. We work on conversation skills, assertiveness, and anger management.
Modules II, III, & IV: Cognitive-Exposure Mastery Program. We work on the following problem areas: avoidance behaviors and feared symptoms, use of safety devices, unhelpful beliefs, harmful perfectionism. To achieve mastery: approach behaviors such as live simulations of challenging situations, empathizing with others, social task concentration training, and identifying and committing to values to enhance the meaning of one's life.
Worry Group
This program is for clients who suffer from chronic worry and anxiety in their everyday lives. (It is not for people who are going through a situational crisis that causes them to temporarily worry in excess.)
Sequence: Sixteen 2-hour-long sessions (4 Modules of 4 sessions each). Access to the program is the 1st session of any Module.
In this group, clients learn a variety of behavioral and cognitive strategies to directly combat chronic worry tendencies. The strategies are further worked on at home in between sessions around actual worries. Avoidances and unhelpful behaviors such as reassurance-seeking are addressed. Besides the direct worry interventions, there are adjuncts that clients learn, such as committing to true values and other approaches to bring more meaning and lightness to their lives.
Future and Upcoming Groups:
Spanish Speaking Depression/Anxiety Group
This psychotherapy program is for clients with depression and/or anxiety, with emphasis on problem areas and the need of current group members. Access to this ongoing group is any week.
We address and learn strategies to combat depression, worry tendencies, panic fear, and phobias. Assertiveness work is aimed at empowering oneself, identifying and committing to true values is to find new meaning in life.
Este programa de psicoterapia es para clients con depresión y/o ansiedad, con énfasis en las áreas problemáticas de los miembros corrientes del grupo. Acceso a este grupo coninuo es cada semana.
Enfrentamos y aprendemos estrategias para combtir depresión, tendencias de preocupación crónica, miedo a pánico, y fobias. Trabajo en asertividad es para adquirir más fortaleza interior y auto-confianza, identificar y cometerse a sus verdaderos valores es para encontrar nuevo sentido en la vida de uno. Trichollotillomania/Skin Picking Group
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